Fence



(No Model.)

I. K. HOLLINGER.

FENCE.

No. 595,172. Patented Dec.7,1897.

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Human STaTns PATENT ()FFICE.

ISAAC K. IIOLLINGER, OF GREENVILLE, OlIIO.

FENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 595,172, dated December 7, 1897.

Application filed March 26, 1897. Serial No. 629,428. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, Isaac K. I-IoLLINenR, a citizen of the United States, residing at Greenville, in the county of Darke and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fences; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable othersskilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in that class of wirefence stays which are formed of sheet metal bent into channel form, it being designed particularly as an improvement upon the stay disclosed in my Letters Patent dated March 5, 1895, and numbered 535,110.

My invention consists of a sheet-metal stay of channel form in cross-section having a rounded corner and also having notches in but one of its edges to seat the runners of a fence, the other edge being plain and parallel to the notched edge, whereby it is adapted to bear against all of the runners, but not seat the same, and a tie-wire for securing the stay upon the runners. In virtue of but one edge being notched the stay is easier to make and is not so liable to break as those stays which are reduced in width and weakened at intervals in their length by the formation of notches in both edges. The important advantage,however, of notching but one edge of the stay is that a single size of die maybe employed to form the stays of channel form in cross-section irrespective of the width of the pieces of metal from which the stays are formed, it being simply necessary when but one edge of the stay is notched to have the notched portion only disposed at anything like a sharp angle to the runners. In virtue of the stay having the rounded corner the same is very easy to form on a die and is not liable to crack or break while being formed. Said rounded corner is further advantageous because it renders it unnecessary to bend the tie-wires at an acute angle, which greatly weakens the same.

The invention will be fully understood from the following description and claims when taken in conjunction with the annexed drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a portion of a wire fence equipped with one of my improved stays. Fig. 2 is a section taken in the plane indicated by the line w 00 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of a portion of the stay. Fig. 4 is a perspective View of a portion of a stay formed of apiece of metal of less width than that shown in Figs. 1 to 3, and Fig. 5 is a horizontal section showin g the same connected to a fence-runner.

Referring by letter to the said drawings, A indicates the runners of a wire fence, and B indicates my improved sheet-metal stay, which is bent into channel form with the aid of a die and is provided with the rounded corner, and is also provided in one of its edges with notches a, designed to seat the fencerunners, its opposite edge being left plain, so as to adapt it to simply bear against the runners, as better shown in Figs. 1 and 2. In virtue of this the strips are easier made and are stronger than those which have acuteangle corners and are materially reduced in width at intervals in their length by the formation of notches in their opposite edges. The formation of notches in but one edge of the stays is also advantageous, because it permits of the stays being shaped upon a single die irrespective of the Widths of the pieces of metal from which the stays are formed. This is due to the fact that the plain unnotched portion of the stay may rest at any angle to the runners, it being necessary to have the notched portion only disposed at a sharp angle to the runners, so as to properly seat said runners in its notches.

The stay shown in Figs. 4 and 5 is similar to that shown in Figs. 1 to 3, with the exception that it is formed of a piece of sheet metal of less width.

My improved stays are placed on the fence so that the runners seat in the notches atherereadily appreciated from this that the stay is securely fastened, inasmuch as it is held against vertical movement by the runners seated in notches a and against lateral movement by the tie-wires b.

It will also be 0b- 7 for runner-wires is old, and also that it is old I served that there is no liability of the plain edge of the stay sagging downwardly.

I am well aware that awire fence comprising a plurality of runners, stays formed of sheet metal bent into V or U shape in crosssection and having notches in their opposite edges at intervals in their length to receive the runners, and wires straddling the stays and coiled upon the runners is old.

I am also aware that a channel-wire-fence stay having openings in but one of its branches to secure such a stay to the runner-wires by tie-wires which take around the stay and are Wrapped around the runner-wires on opposite sides of the stay, and I make no claim to the same; but

What I do claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The herein-described wire fence -consisting essentially of the following elements, viz: the plurality of runner-wires arranged in the same vertical plane, the stay formed of sheet metal and bent into channel form in cross-section and having the rounded corner and also having the longitudinal edges parallel throughout their length and open notches a in one edge receiving the runners and its opposite 

